Science and mobilization
NOV 01, 1951
The following statement was issued by the Science Advisory Committee of the Office of Defense Mobilization on September 12th of this year. The Committee, composed of eleven of the nation’s top scientists, advises the President and Mobilization Director Charles E. Wilson in matters relating to scientific research and development for defense. Chairman of the group is Oliver E. Buckley, chairman of the board of Bell Telephone Laboratories. Other members are Detlev W. Bronk, president of Johns Hopkins University and of the National Academy of Sciences; Walter Whitman, chairman of the Research and Development Board; Alan Waterman, director of the National Science Foundation; Hugh Dryden, of the Interdepartmental Committee on Scientific Research and Development; James B. Conant, president of Harvard University; Lee DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology; James R. Killian, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Robert F. Loeb, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; J. Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Institute of Advanced Study, and Charles A. Thomas, president of the Monsanto Chemical Company.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3067092
As this nation faces for the second time in ten years a grave national emergency, the scientists of the country and the educational institutions are now facing the question of how they can best be of service to the nation in a critical period. The Science Advisory Committee has been appointed by the President to advise the government and recognizes an obligation to assist the scientists in meeting these problems.
© 1951. American Institute of Physics
